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  By Chidi Odinkalu The unraveling of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon shortly after the end of Nigeria’s civil war in the decade of the...

  By Emeka Obasi Genocide does not happen in one day. It is triggered by individuals with skewed minds raging with hate and spewing evil t...

By Chidi Odinkalu Less than a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court, ICC, in Scheveningen on the outskirts ...

  By Chidi Odinkalu “Fools at the top would cause damage to any system not to talk of the fragile institutions of a fledgling democracy.” ...

  By Ikechukwu Amaechi It is a settled axiom: All bullies are cowards. Hurting and scaring those who are weaker is not bravery and despite...

  By Chidi Odinkalu Most people do not know or remember that, strictly speaking, there were and remain no official results for Nigeria’s 2...

  By Chidi Odinkalu “Because judges are part of government, acting on our behalf, we are entitled to require them to abandon their priesth...

  By Chidi Odinkalu Supreme Courts are places where lawyers and judges regularly encounter one another. On 17 November 2023, one of such e...

By Chidi Odinkalu Nigeria’s Supreme Court held a special session on 27 November 2023 to formally usher in a new legal year. It provides an o...

  By Chidi Odinkalu On this day 75 years ago, on December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Decla...

  By Chidi Odinkalu Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as guest of the Nnamdi Az...

By Chidi Odinkalu In July 1977, the Organisation of African Unity adopted a Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa. It of...

  By Chidi Odinkalu In 1968, Stanislav Andrzejewski, the former Polish soldier and prisoner-of-war, who later founded the Sociology Depart...

  By Chidi Odinkalu In July 2023, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, presided over a meeting of the National Judicial Council, NJC, to app...

  By Chidi Odinkalu When Ogbonnaya Ukeje died in Lagos two days after Christmas Day in 1981, Bode Rhodes-Vivour was a 30-year-old lawyer m...

  By Chidi Odinkalu On a Friday in July 2005, Bayo Ojo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, quietly absconded from work in an office in Vic...

  By Chidi Odinkalu Citizens of Gabon, the small Central African country and former bastion of French colonialism in the Congo Basin, brok...

  By Chidi Odinkalu Towards the end of 2022, as his country began preparations towards general elections scheduled to take place in the pe...

  By Chidi Odinkalu Democracy is a very evocative notion. In the name of restoring or defending it, presidents have wielded bayonets, levi...

  By Chidi Odinkalu In July 2013, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then Egypt’s army chief, sacked his benefactor and Egypt’s first democratically el...